[flexcoders] Re: Some Cairngorm questions

2006-08-22 Thread jrjazzman23
@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Some Cairngorm questions Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:40:41 - Our VO classes are separate from the model. We found that the model needed stuff that didn't belong in the VOs, for example, fields that don't get persisted to the db, state variables, and various

[flexcoders] Re: Some Cairngorm questions

2006-08-19 Thread jrjazzman23
Our VO classes are separate from the model. We found that the model needed stuff that didn't belong in the VOs, for example, fields that don't get persisted to the db, state variables, and various methods that the classes in the model need. When we do need a VO to pass to the data layer, we call

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Some Cairngorm questions

2006-08-19 Thread Darren Houle
kidding :-) :-) :-) Sounds like you've got something that works for you, and that's what counts! Darren From: jrjazzman23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Some Cairngorm questions Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:40:41 - Our

[flexcoders] Re: Some Cairngorm questions

2006-08-18 Thread jrjazzman23
Ben, Thanks for your viewpoint. I'd like to summarize your points to see if I understood correctly: 1) It's easy to execute a Command by raising a Cairngorm event. It seems to me that the amount of code to raise a Cairngorm event is the same as executing the Command directly. Probably the

[flexcoders] Re: Some Cairngorm questions

2006-08-18 Thread jrjazzman23
We are pretty much sticking to textbook Cairngorm. We all just began to question the FrontController. Most of my MVC experience is with struts, where it seems to make more sense. As for reusing events and commands from different places, most of what I could find from the Cairngorm creators

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Some Cairngorm questions

2006-08-18 Thread Darren Houle
As for reusing events and commands from different places, most of what I could find from the Cairngorm creators suggest that Commands be specific use cases and a Command should always know its context. I suppose if the event payload indicates the context, then you're not violating this rule. I

[flexcoders] Re: Some Cairngorm questions

2006-08-18 Thread ben.clinkinbeard
I'm pretty sure they're called ValueObjects for a reason :) Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Darren Houle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for reusing events and commands from different places, most of what I could find from the Cairngorm creators suggest that Commands be specific use cases

[flexcoders] Re: Some Cairngorm questions

2006-08-17 Thread ben.clinkinbeard
While I am sure there are others, the first thing that comes to mind concerning your first question is something I did just the other day. Say you've got a command that you want to execute when you receive data back from a remote call. For debugging or other purposes, you now want to be able to